Dear Associates,
This past November
has been one of the busiest months of the year. With very short time
in between the next Palma Boat Show has been presented and the
Working Group of the Nautical Sector, consisting of the main
associations of the sector (including AENB) and executives of the
Public Administration had the first meeting.
In the middle of the
month details of the next Palma Boat Show were revealed. The
association has inverted countless hours in this project. Already
before we knew the 2012 edition was not going to be celebrated, we
started to work with all the proposals and suggestions that you
passed on to us, searching for a formula that would allow us to
créate a viable project, with a capacity to satisfy equally
exhibitors, professionals, clients as well as occasional visitors.
And above all for the Show to be able to finance itself. The Palma
Boat Show will have 9 exhibition áreas; superyachts and brokerage,
nautical tourism, marinas and ports, yacht chárter, local and
traditional yachting of the Balearic Islands, diving, sea schools,
repair and maintenance of boats, recreational fishing and second hand
market. As you can see, the intention is to embrace the whole
nautical sector. Besides there will be a very appealing programme of
activities for the visitors and potential clients.
We
should be proud as a sector of our capacity to organize an event of
such dimensions without the economical help from the government. In
the coming months we will be sorting out the characteristics of the
30th Palma Boat Show.
Recently
the first meeting of Working Group of the Nautical Sector took place.
The principal representatives from the nautical sector and from the
public administration participated in the meeting. In AENB we believe
this meeting suggests a change in the relationship between the
nautical sector and the public administration. The Working Group is
born with a vocation to become a meeting point, and what we could see
the other day both parties appear to be thinking in the same lines.
A
proof of that is the explicit recognition of the nautical sector as a
strategic sector for the Balearic economy by various general
directors of the government.
Taxation,
legislation, investments, statistics, profesional training… none of
the issues that we entrepreneurs deal with on a daily basis was left
untouched. The profesional training was the theme AENB was expressly
in charge of. We have always believed, and also said so that in our
sector a regulated training that takes into account our
particularities is necessary.
We
don´t have a specific employment pool where to look for specially
trained workers, so we have to employ “land professionals” and
spend money to retrain them to sea related work. And not to mention
those workers without a specific training but with years of
experience in their field, who should be “regularized” once the
médium and higher level of Professional Training is implemented.
There
are many thorny issues that must be dealt with an utmost care to make
the transition easier for all so that it will be of advantage both
for us entrepreneurs as well as for those youngsters who want to
dedícate their life to the continuously developing nautical sector.
I
wouldn´t like to finish this letter without a mention of the
approaching elections at AENB. In the most important internal event
of our association a new Executive Board will be elected to mark the
direction of AENB in the coming years. The Electoral Commission is
already formed and the candidacies can be presented starting from the
1st of January. If you require more information about the elections
please contact us through the normal channels.
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